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PAXTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



Concerning this new shrub we have no information beyond the statement that it was fonnd at Tein-tung. The 

 aspect of the plant is not unlike that of an evergreen oak, but the leaves are perfectly smooth on each side. The berries 

 when ripe are very small, and appear to be unusually pulpy, for, on drying, they shrivel up, and leave the ribs of the 

 four stones which they enclose quite apparent. It seems allied to Thunberg's Ilex rotunda. 



Agave VicTOEiiE RegiN-ze. A greenhouse succulent perennial, from Mexico. 

 Amongst these quaint-looking- very interesting plants, this stands out conspicuously as 

 one of the most distinct of all that do not attain a large size. It, we believe, belongs 

 to the same group as A. filifera. We . understand the entire stock of it is in the hands 

 of J. T. Peacock, Esq., of Sudbury House, Hammersmith, whose rich collection of these 

 and kindred plants has attained a world-wide reputation, and by whom it was exhibited 

 before the Floral , Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, who awarded it a first- 

 class certificate, which it richly deserved. 



"Leaves deep green, somewhat dorsally compressed, surface canaliculate, about six to eight inches long, one 

 and a half wide at the gibbose base, from which they narrow upwards towards the acutely carinate point, terminating 

 in a stout blackish-brown spine. The leaves are margined with a narrow band of white. "—Gardener's Chronicle, 

 N.S., vol. iv., p. 484 {with Fig.). 



Adiaktum Peinceps. A stove evergreen Pern, from New Granada. In this we 

 have one of the finest species in the whole of the Adiantums, which undoubtedly re- 

 present the Fern family in a way second to none. It belongs to the same group as 

 A. Tenerum ; but fine as is that species, the present subject much surpasses it, particularly 

 by its graceful drooping or pendent habit. It is a free grower, attaining a large size. 

 A splendid subject alike for exhibition or general decorative purposes. No doubt the 

 temperature of an intermediate house will answer best for it, as there is no class of plants 

 that suffer more than Ferns if kept too hot. 



" Stipe one foot, and lamina two feet in length. Frond broadest at the base, pendent, deltoid, quadripinnate. 

 Pinnules large, upper corner obliquely ovei-lying the rachis ; terminal pinnule larger than the rest, sharply cuneate at 

 the base. Sori one-eighth of an inch or more in length."— Gardener's Chronicfe, N.S., vol. iv., p. 197. 



Cattleya Spectabilis, of which there is a figure in the Florist (vol. iii., p. 92), is only 

 a finely-blown specimen of C. pumila. 



Euchaeis Candida. A stove bulb, imported by Mr. Bull from Colombia. The 

 leaves are obovate, oblong, acuminate, cuneate at the base. The flowers are borne on an 

 erect stem, thrown well up above the foliage, in an umbel, containing more or less in 

 number, according to the strength of the plant. They are white in colour, and similar 

 in character to the well-known E. Amazonica, but individually smaller, on which account, 

 for. the purpose of cutting, it will in many cases be preferred to E. Amazonica. 



Teichopilia Sfavis. A delicious Orchid, of which a figure will appear in a number 

 of this work. 



T. suavis ; pseudobulbis tenuibus obcordatis, foliis latis oblongis coriaceis, pedunculis bhioris, petalis linearibus 

 rectiusculis, labello maximo bilobo undulato crispo basi arete convoluto sursum abrupte ventricoso. 



